GONG
"Camembert Electrique" (1971)


  • Mr. Long Shanks/O Mother/I Am Your Fantasy (D.Allen/G.Smyth/C.Tritsch)
  • Dynamite/I Am Your Animal (G.Smyth/C.Tritsch)
  • Fohat Digs Holes In Space (D.Allen/G.Smyth)
  • And You Tried So Hard (C.Tritsch/D.Allen)

  • YOU CAN'T KILL ME
    Words and Music
    by Daevid Allen

    Well, you can kill my father
    You can kill my son
    You can kill my children
    With a gun...
    You can kill my family
    My family tree

    You can kill my body, baby...
    You can kill my body, baby...
    But you can't kill me
    My lord, I love you...
    My lord, I love you...

    Now you're here... Then you're gone...
    Night and day... Right and wrong...

    You can do what you want
    You can do what you want
    You can do what you want
    You can do what you want...

    I'll be seein' you again
    I'll be bein' you again
    I'll be dreamin' you again
    Again and again and again

    I see you sittin' there on your old back veranda
    You got your shady lady and waltzing Matilda
    I only wanna know what's that big black banana
    You're really only me if you'd only remember


    I'VE BIN STONE BEFORE
    Words and Music
    by Daevid Allen

    Gentlemen... Attention...

    I've been stoned before
    In Saint John's Wood crematorium
    I fell down with boredom
    Knee deep in the snow...

    I've been stoned before...
    In the Prague, in the Hague...
    Or was it another... ?
    I've bin stoned
    Before...


    MISTER LONG SHANKS
    Words and Music
    by Daevid Allen and Christian Tritsch

    Oh, RTF girl, are you stone?
    Let me be your china gnome
    Play me on your gramophone
    And bury me in your garden

    Not today thanks
    Mister Long Shanks
    I have other fish to fry
    To fry
    To fry
    Fry...


    O MOTHER
    Words and Music
    by Daevid Allen and Christian Tritsch

    O mother, don't do it again
    O mother, don't do it again...

    The man in the parlour
    You know what he's after
    Yer bum titty-bum, Pompidou
    Who's your father and mind how you go...


    I AM YOUR FANTASY
    Words and Music
    by Gilli Smyth and Christian Tritsch

    Now is tomorrow afternoon
    There is only you and I and the world
    I am the dream
    That gets into your bed
    The night shadow that loves you
    Makes love with you
    I am your knee
    A name shouted at the railway station
    The voice that calls you
    The candle drips your name
    I am your fantasy
    And you are the world


    DYNAMITE / I AM YOUR ANIMAL
    Words and Music
    by Gilli Smyth and Christian Tritsch

    Dynamite Dynamite Dynamite
    Dynamite Dynamite Dynamite
    Dynamite
    Baby...

    I am your animal watching your head
    I have been following you
    Walking behind you
    Sleeping with you
    Getting into your bed
    And I watch... And watch... And see how you are
    Lying...
    I am your animal
    Your head is in my hands
    And I'm going to fuck you up
    fuck you up
    fuck you up
    Fuck fuck fuck fuck
    Fuck fuck fuck fuck...

    Dynamite Dynamite Dynamite
    Dynamite Dynamite Dynamite

    Wicked olde target - ya sun !
    Wicked olde target - ya sun !

    Yer finger at the trigger
    And yer body burnin' up
    Yo lick the moon busy ole foole
    That big fat sun up there in the sky
    Yaaaaaa sunnn
    But wots that beside it?
    Is it a comet ?
    Or a technicolour widescreen invisible planet ?
    Well it's tha Planet Gong...
    The Planet Gong...
    Yer finger at the trigger
    And yer body burnin' up...
    Camembert Electrick!


    FOHAT DIGS HOLES IN SPACE
    Words and Music
    by Daevid Allen
    & Gilli Smyth

    Well help me help me sing this song
    I wanna stay living for much too long
    Now I wanna ride this big brass gong
    Where am I babe?
    You don't know!

    I gotta take pills to kill my pain
    To kill my pleasure I blow my brain
    I get so high I fall down again
    What's happenin' man?
    You don't know!

    I gotta drink booze to help me swing
    Belladonna to help me sing
    I gotta smoke grass to help me see
    Who are you babe ?
    You don't know !

    Well mirror, mirror on the wall
    Who's the biggest fool of all
    Hallucinating freedom calls
    Wot's freedom babe ?
    You don't know !


    TRIED SO HARD
    Words and Music
    by Daevid Allen
    & Christian Tritsch

    And you tried so hard to get there...
    And you tried so hard to get there...

    Must be a way
    For you to make the big time
    You gotta lay
    The lady at the right time
    There'll come a day
    For drinken all the sky wine
    You only say
    You're waiting for the right time
    There'll come a time
    Just try & try against

    You who believe
    You who believe

    You believe that you can take or leave my love for you
    You believe that you are free to chose what you can do
    You believe that feelin' nothin' make you wise & strong
    Tell me that what makes me love you also makes me wrong

    Look at me
    Look at you
    Look at all the people

    I am not free I am not free
    A hand flutters in my brain
    Silken cords trembling into the waterfall
    Where the wise brown frog
    Gives princely advice
    But not to you or I

    Who? You who belive

    And you tried so hard to get there...
    And you tried so hard to get there...


    TROPICAL FISH / SELENE
    Words and Music
    by Daevid Allen

    Well shady lady whats your problem
    Trying to buy a brand new husband?
    All I want to know is what happened
    To your latest ancient wisdom?

    She seems like a typical witch to me
    She seems like a tropical fish to me
    But you can't kid me its like that back in Sydney

    Stranger & stranger why do you dooo-oo it!

    But you can't kid me its like that back in Sydney

    I couldn't believe my eyes
    Believe my ears

    Kiss your lady goodbye
    Baby baby don't cry
    See the submarine fly
    Hear the angels sing

    Selene
    Spirit of the moon
    Selene
    Spirit of the moon
    My mind is made of you
    Tell me what to do
    Selene